Josep Roure Alcobé
Currently, I am a professor at the Escola Universitària Politècnica de Mataró (Technical School of Mataró) which is part of Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Technical University of Catalonia).
Contact: roure_at_eupmt_dot_cat
Research Interests
My main
research
interest are Machine Learning and Data Mining, the exciting world of
building models and finding patterns from data. My work is focused on
improving learning algorithms and data structures. I also enjoy
applying
Machine Learning techniques in Biosurveillance (detecting rare events
in datastreams) and
in Biometric recognition: - Incremental algorithms: Nowadays, in most challenging applications of machine learning data flows continuously, even in infinite datastreams. The ability to incorporate new information in a decision model, is a desirable property of any learning algorithm. I worked on incremental Clustering (in a joint work with Luis Talavera) and in incremental Bayesian Network learning during my PhD (advisor Ramon Sangüesa).
- Data mining algorithms rely on data structures in order to reduce the time and memory needed to process very large amounts of data. For example structures for catching sufficient statistics. I worked on an incremental version of AD-trees (a join work with Andrew W. Moore in the Auton Lab, CMU).
- In Biosurveillance, Machine Learning and Data Mining can help in timely and reialibly detecting potential infectious disease outbreaks. Great quantities of animal and public health infectious disease and surveillance data are collected by various laboratories, health care providers, veterinarians, and government agencies. I applied Machine Learning techniques in order to combine information evidence from multiple streams of surveillance and improve timeliness and specificity of detection of outbreaks (a joint work with Artur W. Dubrawski and Jeff Schneider in the Auton Lab, CMU).
- Biometric recognition refers to a science that studies statistical methods to uniquely recognize humans based upon one or more physical (face, fingerprints, ...) or behavioral (speech, signature...) traits. I work in face and signature recognition (a joint work with Marcos Faundez and Joan Fàbregas).